Help with Ocean Jam game

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#1

I’ve made a game where you could design aquariums for the Ocean Jam. (No copying please!) I’m having trouble with loading a game state. For whatever reason, the for loop only runs once and only spawns in the first thing created.

Press B to open a menu. Hopefully, the rest is self-explanatory. If you place something down, you can select it with A and bring up a “right-click” menu with B. If you aren’t selecting anything it’s like right-clicking the background.

This is the problem part:

function load_aquarium(name: string): boolean {
    let save_name: string = "aquarium_simulator_save_" + name + "_sprite_count"
    if (blockSettings.exists(save_name)) {
        console.logValue(save_name, blockSettings.readNumber(save_name))
        let i: number = 0
        // Here
        // Problem is that while loop exits too early
        for (let i = 0; i < blockSettings.readNumber(save_name); i++){
            save_name = "aquarium_simulator_save_" + name + "_sprite_" + i + "_"
            let index: number = blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "index")
            console.logValue(save_name + "index", blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "index"))
            console.logValue(save_name + "x", blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "x"))
            console.logValue(save_name + "y", blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "y"))
            console.logValue(save_name + "z", blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "z"))
            let sprite_thing = summon_thing(
                blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "x"), 
                blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "y"), 
                blockObject.getStringProperty(shop_list[index], StrProp.name), 
                index, 
                blockObject.getImageProperty(shop_list[index], ImageProp.regular_image), 
                blockObject.getImageProperty(shop_list[index], ImageProp.selected_image)
            )
            sprite_thing.z = blockSettings.readNumber(save_name + "z")
        }
        return true
    }
    return false
}

Hmmm…I meant for loop instead of while loop in the comment above.

If you are confused about how it works, please tell me!

Thanks in advance!

#2

Will you be able to put fish in the aquarium? :eyes:

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#3

Eventually yes. I want them to move around and have the sharks occasionally eat one.

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#4

AAAH I fixed it!

So I made two changes:

One was in load_aquarium. I didn’t dig in too deeply as to why this is the case, but the number saved to the save_name was being changed as you were loading in new sprites. So I fixed it by just fetching the number of sprites we wanted to load and storing it in numSprites and looping over that

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The second is in save_current_aquarium - there was an off by one error caused by incrementing sprite_counter an extra time outside of the for loop. Removing it looks like this:

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With these changes I was able to load in my aquarium! This looks so cool :smiley:

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